As legitimately freaked out by this deranged stalker’s access to her deepest thoughts as she is, Marie is even more horrified when some of her friends and acquaintances get murdered, and she has to retreat into hiding to protect herself from this secret psychopath. Who would want to terrorize Marie? And why?
DieRy has the feel of one of those mid-90’s teen thrillers, such as I Know What You Did Last Summer. Like that film and many of its ilk, this one goes down relatively painlessly. All of the actors are appealing, particularly Mailer and Byrne, doing his best to perpetuate the drunken Irish stereotype.
“…a fun contemporary spin on the young adults-in-peril subgenre…”
Part of the fun of teen thriller movies is witnessing impossibly pretty people getting whacked. Their deaths serve as a hearty helping of schadenfreude for the average-looking masses in the audience. Rest assured, that tradition is upheld in DieRy. Marie, like all horror movie heroines, is beautiful, approachable, and more or less innocent, spearheading an energetic cast of other impossibly gorgeous people, extras included.
The style that Gelfer imbues into the film tries in vain to keep pace with the absurdly (though admirably clever) overstuffed plot until the movie eventually wears out its welcome. During the final few moments, DieRy feels as though it’s working overtime to wrap things up in a manner that makes even the smallest bit of sense.
Yet, no one is purporting that an innocuous thriller like DieRy must aspire to be great art or even possess a watertight story. DieRy is a fun contemporary spin on the young adults-in-peril subgenre that maintains the viewer’s interest in its inanity until the ridiculous denouement. Marie should take all of this as a lesson, though, and next time save her musings to the cloud; just saying.
"…has the feel of one of those mid-90's teen thrillers, such as I Know What You Did Last Summer."
